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In addition to this obviously being disgustingly transphobic it’s also wildly misogynistic to suggest that women are too delicate to be near any man regardless of genitals OR any person who has or has ever had a penis. People are not in fact this easily “distressed” unless they want to be

Honestly if I ever found myself really needing to leverage social media presence for whatever reason, I'd be out here posting "Bountys are better than Crunchies" and "People who drink water with their lunch are suspect" and "Toast is gay, but hot crossed buns are bisexual" all day long.

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner Would a SAFE ROUTE WORK to stop Channel crossings?

Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means.

Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...

section of the xenophobia party flyer which says "STOP THE BOATS" and then immediately afterwards "Everyone Welcome"

the cognitive dissonance of this poster hurts

Does anyone know any London promoters looking for experimental pop/post punk-type supports? I would like to be in touch asap

EHRC consultation: Responses ignored because of artificial deadline Leaked documents reveal why the commission is sweeping aside half of the 50,000 responses to its consultation – a self-imposed deadline of 18 August.

Having failed in their attempt to compress the process to a two-week consultation at the start, the EHRC is now trying to compress the process at the back end – at the cost of those who need their voices to be heard.

goodlawproject.org/ehrc-consult...

do you know about the bankthefood app? if you tell it your closest food bank, it will buzz when you’re near one of their collection points and tell you what they’re most in need of (and you can tell it what you’ve bought for them, so that gets updated in real time)

Turns out the 20mph limit was great idea! Two years on from the controversial policy, it's becoming increasingly clear that the doubters were wrong

Great piece on the Welsh government’s 20mph policy by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social

“What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working”

Inspiration for England as DfT work on the promised road safety strategy.

excellent eavesdropping moment there walking past two inebriated fiftysomething geordie radgie guys gazing into the window of a cat cafe and comprehending the concept (“the fuckin cats just sit on the fuckin tables like??” “d’y bring your own fuckin cat??”)

mastodon.online/@catnip/1149...

The argument "your vagina isn't a vagina if you don't have a womb" is so fucking terrible, even by "Gender Critical" standards

I keep asking myself things like "how can they not have thought about cis women who've had hysterectomies or with MRKH?" but that isn't how they work. GCs, like all cultists, do not think about all the data and then come to a conclusion. They start at the conclusion and then think of something...

Yep, cis woman here who no longer has womb or ovaries!

68% of those arrested at the Farage Riots last summer had previously been reported for domestic abuse. You know, the ones claiming their violence was a response to concerns about the safety of British women and girls.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

'Fantasist' promised music stars for festival that never happened James Kenny said The Killers and Wet Leg were playing his festival, but that was never the case.

This is ripe for a sad BBC drama treatment, with McKenzie Crook and/or Toby Jones involved somewhere. It's like a shabby, grubby, so very British, kitchen sink Fyre Festival saga.

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

YouTube video by svn4vr svn4vr - ily wildcat (official music video)

this lad might just have the most distinctive sound in the UK - amazing, weird aesthetic too

Love it!

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Petition: Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza Act to ensure deliverer of fuel, food, aid, life saving services etc. We think this shouldn't be dependant/on condition of Israeli facilitation as the Knesset voted against UNWRA access to Gaza. We th...

I shared the link yesterday, but (UK citizens only please) the Gaza petition to UK parliament is here if you're looking for it; just cracked 76k and the rate at which people are signing is creeping up; currently 4500/hour and only needs 347 signatures every hour for the next 3 days to hit 100k

Not even 24 hours and 180,000 of you have now signed up.

Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It’s time the rest of us had one.

Join us: yourparty.uk

photo of 2x 7 spot ladybirds tucked up in the still green furled up head of a sunflower waiting to bloom

photo of a 7 spot ladybird on a sunflower leaf

photo of 3x 7 spot ladybirds on sunflower leaves

These sunflowers are being kept aphid-free by a dedicated team of 7 spot ladybirds

lol this is brilliant... . "DJs will play while a realtime active Shazam is visable on the screen behind. If the Shazam locates a song, the DJ is off the decks. NEXT! Expect unreleased music, Dubs, IDs etc Gqom • Grime • Amapiano • Afro House • UK Funky +"

Gathering in their masses, I presume 😁

Ongoing chat on my street WhatsApp group about plum trees potentially being a delivery mechanism for the local drug dealers.

I discovered the origin only recently! Was surprised to find that it was originally “yeah waooh” and not “waooh yeah”.

Scottish community-owned island announces full boycott of Israel The Isle of Eigg has announced a full boycott of Israel amid its genocide in Gaza ...

NEW: The Scottish community-owned island of Eigg has announced a boycott of Israel

The island of 120 people has backed BDS and its sole shop will stop stocking goods from Israeli firms

www.thenational.scot/news/2533509...

What are they going to do to a rainbow 🌈 in the sky? Shoot at it? 🤦🏻‍♀️

what if traffic signals were like lighthouses and someone had to live up there